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“There is a letter from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to ICANN concerning the use of their sTLD .post that may well have important implications for the future evolution of the domain name system.”

“The 11 suffixes now under review will read “test” in Arabic, Persian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.”

“In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penalty of $222,000 in damages.”

“Four months later, she and her family are in Federal District Court in Dallas suing for damages.”

Not using quotes with these special operators (allintitle:, allinanchor: and allinurl:) should mean a higher number of results, and historically that has been the case. But more often than not right now, using quotes will return MORE results.

Google’s August deal with four major news agencies should mean more space in News Search to feature original articles. Google themselves will be publishing the newswire stories and excluding other re-publishers.

“I tried to update an ad this morning with the price of the product in the ad. I couldn’t list the price, $69.99, because 69 is not allowed.”

“The problem isn’t really “amateur” content, though. Lots of so-called amateur content is extremely good. The problem is sites that are more interested in word count than in any kind of quality.”

“Yahoo Inc has been given U.S. antitrust approval to buy BlueLithium, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.”

“The proposed $3.1bn merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to “a massive violation of data privacy rights”, a German privacy watchdog has warned.”